Scaling up: Assessing social impacts at the macro-scale

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 382-391

  Schirmer, Jacki ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Community impact; Scale; Social change; Social impact assessment

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY IMPACT; DAIRY FARMING; MACRO SCALE; MICRO-SCALES; MULTIPLE FACTORS; NEW APPROACHES; SCALE; SCALING-UP; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CHANGES; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; SOCIAL TREND;

RATING;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

DAIRY FARMING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79952736072     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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